Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human body, has been touted in Asia as an aphrodisiac, an aid to long life and a cure for everything from cancer to baldness. A small but growing number of Americans buy it in drug and health-food stores in the form of a gooey black liquid, tablets, tea and even ginseng soap. Almost all finished ginseng products sold here are imported from South Korea and other Asian countries that process the roots-but a good share of the roots themselves comes from...
...many household operations, however, microcomputers are clearly inferior to simpler and less expensive devices. Like fingers. Michael Mastrangelo finds it easier to make his own tea than program a computer for the task. Says David Korman, who has an IMSAI 8080 in his Belmont, Mass., apartment: "I tried doing my checkbook on it. It's a lot faster by hand." And even though prices have dropped, microcomputers remain complicated devices that require long hours of study to use properly. When Robert Phillips let his sister give a party in his computerized Chicago apartment, he dutifully left a long list...
Good gadgets: wristwatch radio with tape printout of messages received. Hollow cigarette that blows knockout gas. Flying tea tray that decapitates human target...
...tea party is being thrown for Colin (Eli Wallach), out of sympathy. His fiancee of 14 months has just drowned. Diana (Anne Jackson) gets the group together. She feels that Colin's "friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is past cheering. He is a human cork, with matching brain, who could bob merrily on a tidal wave of disaster. Grief is all Greek...
...PALM COURT in New York's Plaza Hotel is a very classy place to stop for tea. Impeccably dressed waiters, who click their heels and stride with the stiff elegance of Russian officers in a Hollywood extravaganza, serve coffee in glistening silver coffeepots. Fragments of blase conversations about grand openings and charity balls and Tiffany diamonds drift above the fronds of potted palms encircling the cozy tables...